{"title":"Accelerator Pins","description":"\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eFunds from these pins support projects to increase quality and grow production from the farmers we have partnered with the longest. $10 from each pin goes to a specific farmer,\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e in the country represented by the pin, to support an \u003cem\u003eexisting project \u003c\/em\u003ethey are working on.\u003c\/div\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"wise-two-kenyan-pin","title":"Spirit of Africa Pin • Funding Drying Beds at Kii","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eProducer: Joyce Wanjiku\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eProject: Metal Drying tables\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGoal: $10,000 raised\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRegion: Kirinyaga, Kenya\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKii is a washing station we've purchased coffee from for 6+ years now, and has consistently been some of our favorite among the hundreds we cup in Kenya each year. The former director, Frederick, of the Runge'to cooperative, of which Kii is part of, impressed us with his implementation of forward looking projects including a cooperative bank and transparent payment system for farmers delivering cherry. He also built a thriving dairy cooperative for the coffee farmers since many of them still hold significant portions of their money in cattle.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrederick unfortunately passed from covid, but we see the new director continuing his legacy of outstanding performance and investment in their farmers and quality. This year Joyce is working to put in metal drying tables. This seems like a small upgrade, but wooden drying tables tend to sag heavily in the middle, which creates more work, and lower quality as cherries pile up too deeply and dry unevenly. This will also expand their capacity for drying overall which has been a huge bottleneck in the past during peak season. Without room for drying coffee cherry it can start to go bad in a day or two, dramatically reducing quality and income for farmers during the busiest time of year.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSupport and accelerate\u003cspan\u003e Joyce's drying table project project with this \"Spirit of Africa\" pin designed by WiseTwo, a very talented Kenyan street artist\u003c\/span\u003e!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe corresponding cup can be found \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.corvuscoffee.live\/products\/emalco-x-wisetwo-camp-mug\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ehere\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e$10 from every pin purchased goes to Kii's drying table project.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Corvus Coffee","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43452885663985,"sku":"SOA-E","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0199\/5632\/products\/pin1.png?v=1694639746"},{"product_id":"guetzalcoatl-guatemala-kenyan-pin","title":"Quetzalcoatl Pin • Funding Electricity to Mauricio's Farm","description":"\u003cp\u003eProducer: Mauricio Rosales\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eProject: Electricity\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGoal: $10,000 raised\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRegion: Huehuetenango, Guatemala\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMauricio embodies the definition of \"community pillar\".  When he carved a road out of the granite mountain \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003ehis farm, La Maravilla,  sits on, he continued it up to the indigenous community above.  Now he needs to tackle the project of running electricity to his farm and plans to continue it up to these same people. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAside from the general benefits of having electricity, electricity will enable him to purchase new equipment which is needed to offset a dramatic shortage of pickers. A nearby region where pickers used to come from started growing their own coffee which has created a reduction in people who can pick, and become a significant problem, especially at peak harvest when the highest quality but also highest volume needs harvested within a matter of a couple weeks. Electricity will also enable him to stop using gasoline generators to power the farm, dramatically reducing his fuel consumption and costs.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSupport and accelerate Mauricio's electricity project and help him increase quality and continue to deliver the amazing lots we've enjoyed from la Maravilla with this pin designed by Zaine Vaun, one of our favorite illustrators!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eThe corresponding cup can be found \u003cstrong\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.corvuscoffee.live\/products\/emalco-x-zaine-vaun-camp-mug-1\"\u003ehere\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e$10 from every pin purchased goes to Mauricio's electricity project.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Corvus Coffee","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43502967816433,"sku":"QPF-E","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0199\/5632\/products\/guatpin.png?v=1714749095"},{"product_id":"coffee-farmer-colombian-pin","title":"San Pedro Farmer Pin • Funding Ciro's Pink Bourbon Project","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eProducer: Albiero Lugo\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eProject: Cherry Buying\/Pink Bourbon\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGoal: $10,000 raised\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRegion: Huila, Colombia\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlbiero and his father Ciro have been some of our most valued partners for the last nine years. Industrious and exacting this father\/son team carved an existence out of an area with almost zero specialty buyers for years, still focusing on quality. Ciro espoused the belief to his son and all their neighbors that quality was worth the effort within itself despite a lack of commensurate payment. We've been very proud to provide that commensurate payment over the years we've worked together and watched them reinvest heavily each year into quality and production.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis year Albiero is looking to expand his production, not through additional plants, but by purchasing pink bourbon from all his neighbors. We are able to pay a high price for this treasured variety, and some of the first farmers to plant it are here in the community of La Marimba. There's a lot of new infrastructure and startup costs required to expand into cherry buying, and his first focus is to build an additional drying area; a large raised bed greenhouse system referred to as a marquesina.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSupport and accelerate\u003cspan\u003e Albiero's pink bourbon\/cherry buying project with this coffee farmer pin designed by Zaine Vaun, one of our favorite illustrators\u003c\/span\u003e!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe corresponding cup can be found \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.corvuscoffee.live\/products\/copy-of-miir-x-zaine-vaun-camp-mug\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ehere\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e$10 from every pin purchased goes to Albiero's Cherry Buying project.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Corvus Coffee","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43502973812977,"sku":"CFP-E","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0199\/5632\/products\/FarmerPin.png?v=1694638601"},{"product_id":"african-crane-rwandan-pin","title":"Crane Pin • Funding Production at Venuste's Washing Station","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eProducer: Venuste Mugraniza\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eProject: Production and Quality Increases at Tumba Washing Station\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGoal: $10,000 raised\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRegion: Rulindo, Rwanda\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVenuste is a former school teacher who saw coffee as a better way to positively impact his community. He purchased Tumba washing station and has grown prices for farmers throughout the region exponentially over the years we've worked with him by helping them cover basic needs through health insurance, loans, and access to agronomists - focusing on increasing quality. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe's working on an ambitious 5 year plan to grow his capacity and start creating pricing tiers with incentives for farmers who deliver higher quality cherry. The portion of this large, multi-year project he's currently working on is building a nursery for seedlings he can distribute to farmers he works with to improve the variety selection and quality of plants. This also helps support better crop management, reducing the cost of rotating plants on a regular basis, which increases yields and quality but requires upfront investment.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHelp support this project, accelerating the timeline through the purchase of our Rwandan Crane Pin - created in collaboration with Zaine Vaun, one of our favorite illustrators!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe corresponding cup can be found \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.corvuscoffee.live\/products\/miir-x-artist-name-camp-mug\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ehere\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e$10 from every pin purchased goes to Venuste's seedling nursery.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Corvus Coffee","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43502976270577,"sku":"CPF-E","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0199\/5632\/products\/africanpin.png?v=1694638930"},{"product_id":"1000-island-pin-funding","title":"1000 Islands Pin • Indonesian Pin • Funding Voster's Wet Mill","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eProducer: Voster Hutamabarat\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eProject: Wet Mill and Cherry Buying\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGoal: $10,000 raised\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRegion: Kebun Galla, Sumatra\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe've been extremely impressed with Voster Hutamabarat over the past four years we've worked with him. He is one of the few producers doing fully washed coffees we've found in Indonesia, and this year has begun to set up a processing facility for neighboring farmers. We feel this project will help create economic security for him as well as pave the way for other farmers to improve their output and increase their economic stability.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSupport and accelerate Voster's wet mill project with this pin designed by Zaine Vaun, one of our favorite illustrators!\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe corresponding cup can be found \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.corvuscoffee.live\/products\/emalco-x-zaine-vaun-camp-mug\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ehere\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e$10 from every pin purchased goes to Kebun Galla's project.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Corvus Coffee","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43545310363889,"sku":"IndonesiaPin","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0199\/5632\/products\/1000island.png?v=1694638115"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0199\/5632\/collections\/pin_1.png?v=1671656655","url":"https:\/\/www.corvuscoffee.live\/collections\/accelerator-pins.oembed","provider":"Corvus Coffee","version":"1.0","type":"link"}